Creating a dialogue between literary and visual mediums, this book guides creative writers and photographers to expand the scope of their work by bringing together ideas and practices from across art forms. Whilst many writers' work is replete with photographs, and many photographers take seriously narrative possibilities in their practice, very little instruction places visual art and writing on an equal footing. Creative Writing and Photography bucks this trend, demonstrating how students can take their first steps and experiment across forms, thus bridging the divide that exists in the creation and discussion of art and literature. With both creative mediums addressed through exploration of the city – through street photography and introspection into writers' personal lives in essays, memoirs and poems – author Eddie Tay links critical ideas to creative practices via discussion of themes such as modernity as capitalist instrument, the hyper-intensity of modern life and the resultant psychological sense of alienation.

Broken into three parts, first directly addressing photographers and then creative writers, the book comes together in the final section to introduce artists in both field to methods of using their art to inform their academic or critical writing. By introducing students to a range of critics, theorists and artists including Sontag, Barthes, Berger, Foucault, Shore, Cartier-Bresson and more, and through exercises calibrated to get students to experiment in a new form, the books helps students situate their work within wider contexts, and develop an expansive and enlightened understanding of their work and others'.

In a world dominated by capitalist forms of thinking that detracts from life-enabling and empathetic flows of thought and feeling, this book is essential for encouraging artists to see and think differently.